%0 Journal Article %T Sobreeducaci¨®n en las ciencias econ¨®micas, administrativas e ingenier¨ªas en el ¨¢rea metropolitana de Cali, 2001-2005 %A V¨¢squez Olave %A Martha Cecilia %A Gir¨®n Cruz %A Luis Eduardo %A ¨¢ngel Giraldo %A Leydi Viviana %A Orjuela Gonz¨¢lez %A David %A S¨¢nchez Rengifo %A Holmes Hern¨¢n %J Semestre Econ¨®mico %D 2008 %I Universidad de Medell¨ªn, Sello Editorial %X this research analyzes over-education in professional areas such as economics, accounting, administration, and engineering in cali city metropolitan area. information used has been taken from a survey applied to professional individuals from four universities from 2001 to 2005. from this information, corresponding inferences are made and a logit model is formulated for identifying factors influencing on over-education. most significant results show that there was an over-education decrease from 48.02% to 38.57% from the first employment to current employment. factors explaining over-education in both first and current employments are the following: genre, having been an employee for a private sector company, having been involved in service activities, having been an employee for micro- and small companies through informal search channels, and having graduated from economic and administrative sciences programs of studies. %K professional labor markets %K analysisis of education %K demand and supply of labor professional. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-63462008000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en